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The world's best loudspeaker

The science museum in London has recreated "the world's best loudspeaker" - an exponential horn from 1929.

four minute piece on Radio 3:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01zcr6d

two minute clip from BBC TV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yQ2IQ2b_YE

Newspaper articles:
http://www.newstatesman.com/cultural-capit...gth-routemaster
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/...christopher-fox

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/exponentialhorn


all found courtesy of...
http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewtopic...=11&t=17040

Cheers,
David.

The world's best loudspeaker

Reply #1 –
I've always had a thing for big speakers!  ...Of course, I'm gonna need 7 of 'em for my 7.1 channel surround system.

The world's best loudspeaker

Reply #3 –
Nice, Arnold!

The world's best loudspeaker

Reply #7 –
Amazing.

I hope to be in London sometime during the hopefully-warmer months of 2015, and will make a point of going to the Science Museum to see/hear this.

Thank you.
The most important audio cables are the ones in the brain

The world's best loudspeaker

Reply #8 –
Thank you for the links Arny - that is an amazing site.